Into Digital Arts

For my next experiment into stop motion, I was to try and do it through drawings. Drawing is one of the things that I cannot do to save my life. So I wanted to keep it to simple shapes to hide my lack of drawing skills. Since Ive been watching a ton of Pixar movies recently, the ball that appears in almost all of their movies. So I drew a little black ball that rolls and bounces around the screen.

Continuing on with my studies into magazine covers and indesign, the next exercise was to design a few posters for upcoming events. For my first design, I chose to use a recent photo that I took while I was at the park over this past week. I wanted to make a more dainty poster, advertising a walk in the park. When thinking about a group of people going for a Sunday afternoon walk through the park, I get a classier/entitled and relaxing feelings. So I attempted to encapsulate that in my font choices. Choosing a more light and dainty font with serifs to give the more light and relaxed feel to the poster. For the second design, I wanted to make something for a ski resort. Around this time of the year, ski resorts hold events where participants ski down the mountain and into a large pool of water. The goal is to try and ski across the water. But this is very difficult, and most participants end up crashing into the water. This is something I have always wanted to see, or maybe even try ...

I forgot to schedule the release of this blog, otherwise it would have been available yesterday. In the next step in learning how to work with inDesign with the intent of creating a magazine cover, I began to experiment with the use of grids. The first three images I produced are around the layout of a grid, utilizing three different colors. The second group of three images was also around the idea of grids. However, instead of using colored shapes, I experimented with typographical hierarchy. Playing with the different weights, sizes, and line spacing to create the hierarchy.

With the advent of online classes, we have began to explore into new software included in the adobe suite. The current focus is in Adobe InDesign with the creation of magazine covers. The best way to learn how to use any software, is in making things and just seeing what the software has to offer. This is what I did over the past weekend. I made two different magazine covers using previous works completed for this class.  The first cover was made using my alphabet that was made for the  first project of the semester. Since the alphabet was made from images of pool balls, I wanted the magazine cover to reflect that idea. So I made the magazine called Games  and had current issue, the cover of which I was designing, about the death of the american pool house. As pool started to decline as a popular sport before the turn of the century, I aimed to go for a neon sort of feel with the wording on the cover, without the neon coloring to fit into the color scheme. The...

This is the first of a few experiments into stop motion animation I plan to do over the next couple of days. These are all to get ready to produce a stop motion project in order to fulfill an honors requirement. I am very excited to get into this again, after the long break I have been anxious to get back to work. This work, in particular, has a lot of issues. There are a few frames in which my phone is visible in the lower right hand corner. The movement of the airpods case is also a bit inorganic and stutters a bit from time to time. But I feel that this was a first step into the genre and I look forward to making more.  

Over the weekend, I read an excerpt from The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard. This reading was an in depth dramatization of the emotions and feelings of different spaces, in particular the house. A particular point that was made was about the cellar "As for the cellar... it is first and foremost the dark entity of the house, the one that partakes of subterranean forces. When we dream there, we are in harmony with the irrationality of the depths"(Bachelard). This harks back to my childhood, where I was always deathly afraid of the basement. Its dark depths and dank atmosphere lended itself to evil intentions. However, like all fears, mine have passed since I got the courage to explore the basement and what possibilities the space holds. Through knowledge and exploration, fears can be swept aside, replaced by inspiration and a swath of new activities, all without the hanging doom of the unknown darkness that was present beforehand.